Players Of Week 4 In Minnesota

Christian Hedstrom (5) had a big game for Detroit Lakes in its win over Staples-Motley. Photo by Brian Basham/DL Newspapers

Here are your top area performances in Minnesota for Week 4 of high school football.

Dillon Card – Verndale

Verndale scored 56 points in the Pirates 56-8 win over Hillcrest Lutheran Academy and Card had a hand on six touchdowns to get the Pirates to 4-0. He rushed for 223 yards, including touchdown runs of 1, 2 and 43 yards, returned a punt 89 yards for a touchdown, took back an interception 35 yards for a touchdown and found Will Kramer for a 15-yard touchdown pass.

Michael Strand – Barnesville

Strand had 10 carries for 92 yards and four touchdowns and hauled in a touchdown pass in Barnesville’s 68-12 win over United North Central.

Chad Johnson – Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton

It’s Week 4 and D-G-F has surpassed its win total from last season after the Rebels 33-7 win over Breckenridge to move to 3-1. Large part of that goes to Johnson, who had 267 yards rushing, including touchdown runs of 76 and 17 yards, on 17 carries for the Rebels.

Payton Jordahl – Perham

Jordahl did what leaders do when a team stumbles and carry Perham in their 13-6 win over Crookston a week after falling 21-7 to Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton. He had 130 yards rushing and two touchdowns on 17 carries to go along with seven tackles and a forced fumble on defense.

Harms was 4-for-8 for 103 yards and two touchdowns and rushed for a touchdown in Hawley’s 47-0 win over Roseau. Harms found Dalton Leaf for a 33-yard TD pass and Dillon Omberg for a 25-yard TD reception.

Christian Hedstrom/Jarret Nosal – Detroit Lakes

Hedstrom and Nosal combined for 290 yards and four touchdowns on 10 carries in the Lakers 48-6 win over Staples-Motley. Hedstrom had 98 yards and two TDs on seven carries and Nosal had 92 yards and two TDs on three carries.

Austin Rund – Fergus Falls

Rund had a 24-yard touchdown pass to Drew Pearson and ran for two touchdowns in Week 4. The Otters needed all of it to top Sauk Rapids-Rice 35-34 and get back to .500.

JD Kappes/Blake Fetting/Lance Ruebke – Ada-Borup

Seemingly every week is a decision of which one of these three should make the players of the week list. Week 4 was impossible to pick, as Kappes was 22-for-28 for 200 yards and four touchdowns through the air, Fetting had 58 yards and three touchdowns rushing, 60 yards and a TD receiving and threw for 48 yards – while going 7-for-8 on extra points – and Ruebke had 60 rushing yards, 11 catches for 110 yards and a TD in Ada-Borup’s 55-33 win over Park Christian.

Mahnomen’s defense

Only Mahnomen could come away with a 60-0 win and have no real standout. Tommy Pavek had 47 yards rushing and two TDs, Bob Bjorge had a rushing TD and a touchdown catch, Mitch Foss had 75 yards rushing and two TDs, but the Indians defense was ridiculous.

The Indians held Walker-Hackensack-Akely to 19 yards of offense in the team’s third shutout of the season. W-H-A had -14 yards rushing.

Chris Murphy can be reached at 701-241-5548 or cmurphy@forumcomm.com. Follow him on Twitter @SeeMurphsTweets for Minnesota prep updates and smart alecky remarks about sports, movies, music and life in general.

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Chris Murphy has been a sports reporter for the Forum since 2012. He's covered high school sports in Chicago, North Dakota and Minnesota since 2009 and, for some reason, has been given awards for doing so.